Discover Italian

I have been making crafts all of my life, I learned knitting from my mother, embroidering from my grandmother and crocheting from a friend when we were both 9. I watched my mother make creative vases from old bottles and crocheted summer hats that were then stiffened with sugar which made our faces sticky. She made fluffy doilies and placed them all over the house. She also made these unique shoe pads: little foot sized pieces from old sweathers, one set

each for the six of us that were kept by the front door. We HAD to use them, shuffling everywhere in the house to keep her marble floors clean and shiny.

And so, as an adult, I made my own pregnancy clothes when we lived in Germany because apparently there were no pregnant German women. I also made my daughter's baby and toddler clothes just because I love her and wanted everything about her to come from me. I have even tried to make shirts and pants for my husband but he convinced me to give it up. I now know that matching bottle-green outfits for the two of us were not cool even in our hippie days.

So, these days I am intoknitting, sewing and crocheting, for myself, our daughter and her children, but lately, especially jewelry making. I mostly bead,I use different materials like wood, glass, shell, leather and the ever elegant pearls. I consider it a sign of maturity, when I was a teenager I hated them, now I love them.